54 [MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



I have another item that may be of interest to some of those 

 interested in vegetable gardening. The following list of vege- 

 tables was also taken from the "Commercial Bulletin," showing 

 the amount shipped into this city for consumption and distribu- 

 tion: 



VEGETABLES. 



Beans, green, boxes 2,364 



Cabbage, crates 2,401 



Celery, cases 1,155 



Cucumbers, crates 715 



Lettuce, dozens 5,018 



Onions, young, dozens 1,393 



Peas, green, boxes 891 



Radishes, dozens 3,287 



Rhubarb, pounds 147,405 



Tomatoes, crates 14,751 



This showing should direct the minds of our most intelligent, 

 enterprising gardeners to the fact that there is a splendid op- 

 portunity for increased tillage and the raising of larger and 

 better crops of all classes of vegetables, which could be readily 

 disposed of at a profit. 



We have one fruit grower and vegetable gardener, Elmer 

 Chandler, of Richfield, Hennepin County, who planted 30 acres 

 of Hubbard squash, in 1890, which produced over 120 tons, or 

 at the rate of 4 tons per acre. You may ask what could he do 

 with so large a quantity. He has a squash house for storing 

 the best in quality, built in such a way that he can keep 60 tons 

 through the winter, or until the markets demand them at good 

 prices, and his intermediate qualities he ships to the Boston, 

 Mass. , market, early in the fall, receiving a net price of $28 per 

 ton. He is a specialist in squash raising and winter storing. 

 We have several other varieties of vegetables that can be 

 grown by specialists; for instance, Mr. Fred Busch, of Rich- 

 field, is a specialist in winter and early vegetable gardening, 

 having one of the largest plants for forcing winter vegetables 

 anywhere in the Northwest, over 40,000 square feet of glass. 

 Lettuce and cucumbers are his principal crops in winter. He 

 grew over 21,000 dozen cucumbers and over 250,000 dozen of 

 lettuce last year. The opportunities for a few specialists 

 in celery culture in Minnesota are the best to be found any- 

 where. Already our markets are demanding large supplies of 

 this vegetable, a large portion now used coming from Kalama- 

 zoo, Mich. There are hundreds of acres contiguous to these 

 two large cities that are the very best for this purpose. Some- 



